OK, I will comment. That is the biggest crock of BS I have seen in many moons.
If they want to learn about Islam, they can certainly do so without having to visit a place, because Islam is not about places...
Wow! You'd have to be thoroughly oblivious not to know that, without "places" (i.e., Mecca, Medina, especially), they would have NO religion at all. That has got to be the biggest lie I have ever witnessed one of the ragtime cowboys tell...